By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Depar...
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 2d instant, together with accompanying papers.
I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Se...
For these objections, and many others that might be presented, I cannot approve this bill, and therefore return it for t...
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th i...
I herewith transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at Fort Sumner, N. Mex., on...
I have been unable to find in the Constitution of the United States any warrant for the exercise of the authority thus c...
Would it not be the part of wisdom to take for our guide the Federal Constitution, rather than resort to measures which,...
The bill fails to provide in what manner the State of Arkansas is to signify its acceptance of the 'fundamental conditio...
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Interior, made in reply to the resolution adopted by the House of...
In reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Sec...
In further answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25th of November, 1867, calling for informati...
As a mark of respect for his memory, it is ordered that the Executive Departments be immediately placed in mourning and ...
In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that thirty minute guns be fired at each of the navy-yards an...
This event will occasion mourning in the nation for the loss of an eminent citizen and honored public servant.
I communicate, for the consideration of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of a dis...
To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in reply to the resolution...
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which embrace all the papers that have been submitted to me relating ...
